Back when I was in high school and Nandini was in college, she called me for ideas sometimes. Once she had to design a simple experiment for a psych class just to show that she …

I evidently got the second-highest grade in the class on the second Linguistics problem set. Go me! And Adam! Behind every good Linguistics problem set is an Adam. The rhyme "reduce/deduce" came to me the …

The other day I woke up with a sentence in my head, fully-formed: "I probably grew up in a town called Satellite that you've never heard of."

All of this is true. Jeana and I visited the oxygen bar and relaxed, but I don't know if the oxygen was the causative agent. I'd want to try an oxygen tent with no focus …

Paul Conrad on the difference between soft money and hard money.

Twice, now, I've had to turn down fellows on Sproul Plaza who tried to give me information about some dating game ("Singled Out") to be held by some campus organization. I've had to explain that …

Have you ever asked yourself, "Why should I learn the Unix way to do this when there's probably a web applet somewhere that can do it for me?" Case in point.

I try to loathe Friends, but Salon is right yet again (isn't it always?): I'll miss it when it's gone. No, really.

I am foursquare against ridiculous copyright extension.

I am almost in favor of open standards for vampire movies but I wouldn't want people to construe me as some sort of, I don't know, prescriptivist or anything.